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Thursday, July 16, 2015
Iola band instructor lauded By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register
Shiny plaques are nice but items of recognition are not what Iola’s band instructor, Matt Kleopfer, is working toward. Even so, the awards keep Matt Kleopfer piling up. Kleopfer, the Iola High School and Middle School
band instructor, was recently named Outstanding Young Bandmaster by the Kansas Band Masters Association The award is presented annually to a young director who has taught for fewer than seven years. Kleopfer has been at Iola since fall 2012. “Awards are nice, but what’s exciting to me is that the band grew to so much notoriety that people are wondering who was behind it,” Kleopfer said. “I give it up to the kids. They are great players and
they are the ones who make me look good.” As the old saying goes, “practice makes perfect,” and boy do his students practice. This year his summer music program has grown, serving 150 students. Practices are at the IMS band room Tuesday through Thursday. “The key to our success is through the practice they put in during the summer,” he said. “They are in charge of See BAND | Page A5
Missoula’s ‘Aladdin’ on stage Saturday By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
Maj. Gen. Frederick Funston
Iola to celebrate Funston’s birthday By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
Seven months to the day after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox ended the Civil War, Frederick Funston was born at New Carlisle, Ohio, on Nov. 9, 1865. Allen County Historical Society will celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth, albeit a tad early, with his career being the focus of the society’s summer meeting Tuesday evening and a
full day of events on July 25. The summer meeting will be in the Frederick Funston Meeting Hall, 207 N. Jefferson, starting at 7 p.m., Tuesday Jarrett Robinson will speak — “Fruits of the Poisonous Tree: Setting the Record Straight on General Funston.” Robinson, from Spring Hill, Tenn., has spent the past 25 years studying See FUNSTON | Page A5
Fifty-seven area youngsters, many of whom have never been on stage before, are getting a crash course in the world of theater this week. After five straight days of strictly regimented rehearsals, the youngsters will present the Missoula Children’s Theatre production, “Aladdin,” at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. Tickets sell for $3 for adults, $2 for children. Youngsters 4 and under are admitted free of charge. Those expecting the traditional telling of the young Aladdin in search of a magic lamp will come away surprised, explained instructors Jessica Hall and Gabriella Cuebas. That’s because the Missoula production brings its own unique spin on the story, complete with penguins, seven “odd ball” wonders of the
Jessica Hall, left, and Gabriella Cuebas world (The Leaning Tower of Pizza, for example), and of course a genie. “It’s not your Disney ‘Aladdin,’” Hall said. The rehearsals are designed so children, regardless of per-
forming experience, can learn their lines and be rid of any form of stage fright by the time the curtain drops. “It’s very structured,” CueSee ‘ALADDIN’ | Page A5
Obama touts Iran nuke deal By NANCY BENAC The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Part pitchman, part physics teacher, President Barack Obama is taking on the job of selling the Iran-nuclear deal with the gusto of a salesman who won’t take no for an answer. An hour or so into a presidential press conference on
the details of the agreement We d n e s d a y, Obama looked like he didn’t want it to end. “Have we exhausted Iran questions here?”
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Iola Municipal Band Since 1871 Jake Ard, director Thursday, 8 p.m., at the bandstand
PROGRAM The Star Spangled Banner....................................arr. J.P. Sousa When The Stars Begin To Fall.................................................arr. Fred J. Allen Beer Barrel Polka...................Brown, Timm, and Vejvoda, arr. Briegel Begin The Beguine...........................................Cole Porter, arr. William Teague Colonel Bogey.....................................................Kenneth J. Alford, arr. Glover Take Me Out To The Ballgame.......................Albert Von Tilzer, arr. Morbach Washington Square.....................................Nancy H. Seward Springfield Regiment.................................Paul Curnow Summer of ‘42......................................Michel Legrand, arr. Osterling The Washington Post.....................................................John Philip Sousa
When life gives you lemons Colton and Emalee Thompson helped cool off Iolans and raised money for local animals by setting up a lemonade stand Wednesday afternoon. The two animal lovers set up shop on the sidewalk in front of their grandma Sharon Hoffmeier’s home on the corner of Elm and Broadway Streets. Colton, 6, and Emalee, 8, said the funds raised from the stand will go to the Allen County Animal Rescue Facility in LaHarpe. They had stood in the summer heat for a majority of the afternoon selling cups of lemonade for 25 cents. By 3:30 p.m. they had raised $33 for the rescue facility. Emalee was also selling hand drawn pictures for 5 cents. The Thompsons are the children of Kristin Fehr, Justin Stotler and Tim Thompson. REGISTER/KAYLA BANZET
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